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Table 5 Percentage of women reporting IPV, ever and past year, by type, facility-based surveys from journals

From: Prevalence of intimate partner violence against women in the Arab world: a systematic review

Country

Lead author, publication year

Year(s) data collected

Risk of bias¥ score

Physical

Sexual

Emotional/psychological

Physical, sexual or emotional/ psychological unless noted

Ever

Past year

Ever

Past year

Ever

Past Year

Ever

Past year

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

%

Egypt

Bakr 2005

2004

6

56

17.1

47.9 threats

88.4 control

89.8

Elnashar 2007

2002/3

5

11.5

Fahmy 2008

2007

4

22.4

19.6

74 psych.

26.8 social

62.2

Guimei 2012

2007/9

5

53.6*

31.8*

Mamdouh 2012

2009/10

6

50.2

37.1

71.0 emotional

40.8 economic

77

Sayed 2014

2012

7

57

9.6

50.3* threats

55.6* control

75.9

Iraq

Ahmed 2012

2010

7

11.8* P/S

Al-Tawil 2012

2011

4

17.6

9.4

32.4

Al-Atrushi 2013

2009/11

3

38.9

15.1

21.1

12.1

52.6

43.3

58.6

45.3

Jordan

Al-Modallal 2010

NA

7

48.5 work-related

Al-Modallal 2012

NA

6

22.7a

16.7a

50.3a emotional

73.7a control

53.3a economic

78a

43.4a P/S

Al-Modallal 2014

NA

8

35.3*a

Al-Natour 2014

2011

7

12.5

5.1

59.0

Al-Nsour 2009

2006

5

19.6†

47.5† emotional

12.3† neglect

87† P/E

Clark 2008

2005

2

31.2c

18.8c

73.4c psych.

97.2c control

38c P/S

Lebanon

Awwad 2014

5

40.6

33.0

64.8 verbal

19.0 emotional

22.0 social

Hammoury 2007

2005

5

59‡

19.1‡

26.2

16‡

68.8‡

Usta 2007

2002

5

23‡

31‡ insultsd

35‡ P/E

Morocco

Manoudi 2013

2006

8

16.6

Saudi Arabia

Afifi 2011

2010

5

12.1*e

5.6*e

19.8*e

Al-Faris 2013

2009/10

6

12.2

Eldoseri 2014

2012

4

44.5

16.0

Fageeh 2014

2011/12

5

11.6‡

4.8‡

29‡

34‡

Tashkandi 2009

2004

6

26.9

25.7

57.8 shoutingf

57.5*g

57.8h

58.5

Sudan

Ahmed 2005

2001/2

5

20.1*

28.4* control

30.2* threats of harm

41.6

Syria

Maziak 2002

4

23.1i

  1. ¥Risk of bias was scored from 0 to 11, with 0 meaning the least risk of bias and 11 meaning the highest
  2. *Percentage calculated by authors based on published numbers of women reporting that form of IPV
  3. P/S Physical and/or sexual, P/E  Physical and/or emotional
  4. †Based on most serious act of “abuse” in past year, measured with an open-ended question
  5. ‡Included violence by any household/family members, including husbands
  6. a. Timeframe unclear
  7. b. 52.7% of women not receiving mental health treatment reported emotional IPV
  8. c. Articles reported different rates depending on subsamples of interest. Figures in this table come from Clark et al. [71]
  9. d. Also, threats of harm (15%); divorce (4%); to take away children (12%); denied financial support (12%)
  10. e. Violence by any family member (ever) was 17.9% physical; 6.9% sexual; and 35.9% emotional
  11. f. Article did not report rates of any emotional violence ever; 30.9% reported emotional violence with no physical violence
  12. g. 32.8% women reported experiencing emotional but no physical IPV in the past year
  13. h. Physical and/or emotional IPV. Article did not explain how lifetime prevalence could be lower than past year
  14. i. 26% among married women